Ho Tzu Nyen. Photo courtesy of Singapore Art Museum. Ho Tzu Nyen
Ho Tzu Nyen was born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works. His films, film-based installations, and performances draw from a vast range of cultural materials and discourses, which are repurposed into a visual machinery that animates the entanglement and complexity of history, subjectivity and power. His films, film-based installations, and performances draw from a vast range of cultural materials and discourses, which are repurposed into a visual machinery that animates the entanglement and complexity of history, subjectivity and power.
Ho’s recent solo exhibitions were held at Art Sonje Center (2024), Singapore Art Museum (2023), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, 2021), Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (2021), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), and Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018). He represented Singapore at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2011. Ho’s recent group exhibitions include Thailand Biennale (2023), Aichi Triennale (2019), 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), and 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014).
His works have also been presented in numerous international theaters and film festivals, including Theater der Welt (2010, 2023), kunstenfestivaldesarts (2006, 2008, 2018), Berlin International Film Festival (2015), Sundance Film Festival (2012), Venice Film Festival (2009) and 41st Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival (2009). In 2019, Ho co-curated the 7th Asian Art Biennial with Taiwanese artist Hsu Chia-Wei at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.
Ho Tzu Nyen is a participating artist in the Framer Framed exhibition Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis curated by Mi You and David Garcia.
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